NEWS

19.06.2006

Structural Development of Quality Assurance in Higher Education

With the formal joining of the Bologna Process, all member countries
pledged to implement a range of fundamental structural reforms at the
higher education level. In the Berlin and Bergen Communiqué, the
European Ministers of Education clearly expressed their belief that
“the quality of higher education has proven to be at the heart of the
setting up of a European Higher Education (HE) Area.
The existing
legal framework on the state level and lack of the financial means in
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) are the reasons why BH does not have a
quality assurance (QA) system in the Higher Education Area. Due to the
fact that QA system can be established within the university
institutions, WUS Austria initiated the project “Structural Development
of Quality Assurance in HE” in cooperation with the Government of
Liechtenstein and the Austrian Development Agency (ADA). The aim of the
project is to ensure the transfer of the know-how and expertise from EU
experts to the BH Universities and to provide the BH universities with
the guidelines for QA systems. Additionally, the project will assure
wider impact of already exiting initiatives.